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Comment by junebash | Hacker News Reader

Would be a shame if someone used this to track down the ICE towers and vandalize them.

Maybe best not to joke about that.

An enthusiastic and muddle-headed person might get inspired by disposable Internet chatter, and then go and get themselves sent to federal prison (or worse).

Also, I suspect that an attack like that would only justify (or be used as a pretext for) additional actions that are undesirable to the perpetrator.

Maybe best not to even reply to such jokes. An enthusiastic and muddle-headed person might be a contrarian and might get challenged by disposable Internet chatter to not do something and still do that and get themselves in trouble. Staying silent is the timeless strategy of having no effect on the world

If there was someone for whom this strategy worked, they wouldn't speak up to tell us.

You won't find a "tower", you'll find an SUV or a hotel room with Pelican cases and armed officers inside.

For $20, it's cheap enough to add to a drone for a targeting purpose

This "shame" is/would be a badge of honor, my friend.

This shame feels like something that would get one extraordinarily renditioned to some black site where nobody would ever know about the shame

PSA: If you have to worry about your government taking people away to some black site, things have gotten pretty bad.

PSA: Things have indeed gotten pretty bad, which is also why were are discussing tech to detect (and some are discussing the possibility of countering) elements of the forces doing the disappearances.

True, but at least we know who was right.

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Is running a fake cell tower technically against FCC regulations? Any possibility of just reporting them to the FCC and causing them to incur fines or take them down?

The people at FCC are just government officials. They'd be foolish to antagonize the leadership of the executive branch based on just principles (I know how unscrupulous this sounds. But such are times). Besides, they are up against one of the most heavily funded rogue forces in the world that is also known to go after people outside their jurisdiction (citizens) with impunity.

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